I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.